1 - 2.5 million miles of well-paved roads to take you from coast to coast
2 - Cheap gas, even at $2.15 a gallon
3 - The muscle-car revival
4 - Blue jeans on a woman
5 - Sights denim in Henderson, Kentucky
6 - Pot delivery
7 - www.BaseballReference.com
8 - The wineries of the Pacific Northwest
9 - Jenna Bush
10 - Produce foods at Whole Foods
According to GQ Magazine, July 2005 Issue, p. 90, 62 Reasons to Love America
1. Fidelity
2. The recognition of the supreme importance of love
3. Intelligence
4. Beauty
5. A sense of humour
6. Sincerity
7. An appreciation of good food
8. A serious interest in some art, trade or hobby
9. An old-fashioned and wholehearted acceptance of monogamy
10. Courage
1. SEX ON THE BEACH
2. ORGASM
3. MANHATTAN, The Original
4. TEQUILA SUNRISE The Original
5. ALABAMA SLAMMER
6. COSMOPOLITAN
7. BLACK RUSSIAN
8. PINA COLADA
9. KAMIKAZE
10. SCREWDRIVER
According to ThatsTheSpirit.com
1 “I Have a Dream”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
28 Aug 1963
Washington, DC
2 Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy
20 Jan 1961
Washington, DC
3 First Inaugural Address
Franklin D. Roosevelt
4 Mar 1933
Washington, DC
4 War Message (”A Date which Will Live in Infamy”)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
8 Dec 1941
Washington, DC
5 Keynote Speech to the Democratic National Convention
Barbara Jordan
12 July 1976
New York, NY
6 “My Side of the Story” (”Checkers”)
Richard M. Nixon
23 Sept 1952
Los Angeles, CA
7 “The Ballot or the Bullet”
Malcolm X
3 Apr 1964
Cleveland, OH
8 Address to the Nation on the Challenger Disaster
Ronald Reagan
28 Jan 1986
Washington, DC
9 Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
John F. Kennedy
12 Sept 1960
Houston, TX
10 Address to Congress on the Voting Rights Act (”We Shall Overcome”)
Lyndon B. Johnson
15 Mar 1965
Washington, DC
According to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Texas A & M University
Usama Bin Laden
Jorge Alberto Lopez-Orozco
Diego Leon Montoya Sanchez
James J. Bulger
Genero Espinosa Dorantes
Robert William Fisher
Victor Manuel Gerena
Glen Stewart Godwin
Richard Steve Goldberg
Donald Eugene Webb
According to the FBI, 2005
Victor Lustig, the man who sold the Eiffel Tower
Frank Abagnale, catch me if you can
Christopher Rocancourt, the french Rockefeller
Ferdinand Demara, the Great Impostor
David Hampton, less than Six Degrees of Separation from Sidney Poitier
Milli Vanilli, the pop duo who couldn’t sing
Cassie Chadwick, the illegitimate daughter of Andrew Carnegie
Mary Baker, the Princess Caraboo from the island of Javasu
Wilhelm Voigt, the amusing Captain of Köpenick
George Psalmanazar, the first Formosan to visit Europe
According to 2-Spare
#1: Hijinks of Hussein and Son
#2: Releasing The Prisoners
#3: The Phony Deadline
#4: The Dead Dog
#5: A Fake Hanging
#6: A Fake Robbery
#7: Revival of the Warsaw Pact
8: Fake Death Report
#9: Fake Disaster Warnings
#10: The Iraqi Ambassador’s Final Joke
According to Museum of Hoaxes
#1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
#2: Sidd Finch
#3: Instant Color TV
#4: The Taco Liberty Bell
#5: San Serriffe
#6: Nixon for President
#7: Alabama Changes the Value of Pi
#8: The Left-Handed Whopper
#9: Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers
#10: Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity
According to Museum of Hoaxes
1 - Prohibition
2 - That Teensy Programming Decision That Led to the Y2K Bug
3 - Geraldo’s Opening of Capone’s Vault
4 - Telemarketing
5 - The Jerry Springer Show
6 - Mr. Simpson, Step Forward and Try on the Glove
7 - Spandex in Plus Sizes
8 - The Designated-Hitter Rule
9 - Driftnet Fishing
10 - Watches That Beep
According to Time
1 - News / Talk / Information
2,179 stations
15.9% share of audience
2 - Country
2,066 stations
13.2% share of audience
3 - Adult Contemporary
1,556 stations
12.8% share of audience
4 - Contemporary Hit Radio
569 stations
10.3% share of audience
5 - Rock
869 stations
9.0% share of audience
6 - Urban
352 stations
7.6% share of audience
7 - Oldies
1,060 stations
7.1% share of audience
8 - Spanish
750 stations
6.4% share of audience
9 - Religious
2,014 stations
5.5% share of audience
10 - Alternative
454 stations
4.0% share of audience
Source: Arbitron, Radio Today 2005